Matthew 20:7 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁷ They replied, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You men also may go to work in my vineyard.’

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ They answered him, Because nobody has hired us. He told them, You go out into the vineyard also and you will get whatever is just and fair.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard.

Common English Bible

⁷ “‘Because nobody has hired us,’ they replied. “He responded, ‘You also go into the vineyard.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ They say to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You also may go into my vineyard.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go you also into my vineyard.

Matthew 20:7 Cross References

Matthew 20:1

“For the kingdom of heaven is similar to a farmer who went out early one morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

Matthew 20:6

[Finally] he went out [once more] at about five o’clock in the afternoon and found [still] other men standing around. He said, ‘Why have you been standing around all day and not working?’

Matthew 20:8

And when evening came the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers [in] and pay them their wages, beginning with the last [one hired, then] to the first.’

John 9:4

While it is still daytime we must perform the acts of God, who sent me. Nighttime is coming, when no one can act.

Acts 4:16

saying, “What should we do to these men? For we cannot deny that a significant miracle was performed by them, and everybody living in Jerusalem knows it.

Romans 16:25

– See Verse 27

Ephesians 6:8

knowing that whatever good deed a person does, he will be rewarded for it from the Lord, whether he is a slave or a free person.

Colossians 1:26

[This message is] the secret which has been kept hidden throughout the ages and generations, but has now been revealed to God’s saints [i.e., His holy people].

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not [so] unjust as to forget the work you are doing and the love you have shown for Him, as you ministered to the saints [i.e., His holy people] and continue to minister [to them].